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- The source of awareness by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 17, 2009
If you want to awaken you must step back into the source of your own awareness. No matter what arises in your experience, follow it back into the source of your fundamental awareness. When seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, feeling, and th...
- Hearing tile strike bamboo – Crack! Look, listen, smell, taste, touch, and think! by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 2, 2009
Look, listen, smell, taste, touch, and think! Right here, right now, your mind and body are shining forth as the vast, unnamable void. Continuously it flows forth as seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, and thinking. If you want to attain cer...
- Post-Kensho Practice-Realization, Zen Mind to Mind Transmission by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Oct 30, 2009
Once my capacity to read was activated, the First Ancestor gradually exposed me to more and more words in various contexts and higher degrees of difficulty. With his guidance, and my own continuous practice, my ability to read progressed. As my abili...
- Autumn Rivulet #1 by YogaforCynics on Oct 30, 2009
I’m in the here and now and I’m meditating, andstill I’m sufferin’, but that’s my problem...Van Morrison...as long as you’re breathing, there’s more right with you than wrong with you...Jon Kabat-Zinnfelt a cool autumnbreeze upon waking...
- Kensho is a wonderful milestone on the Zen path by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Oct 23, 2009
Kensho is a wonderful milestone on your path, but it is easy to become attached to this experience. Attachment is a barrier to further progress and is a clear sign that you have stumbled past your realization. With kensho you realize that you have be...
- Actualized by the many things by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Oct 21, 2009
Genjokoan says: To forget your self is to be actualized by the many things. A skier mustering whole body-and-mind, totally absorbed in the activity of skiing down a mountain, forgets his or her “self” and is actualized by the myriad dharmas (the...
- The First Moment of True Dharma Transmission – Genjokoan by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Oct 15, 2009
In Dogen’s Shobogenzo, Genjokoan we read: The first moment you seek the dharma you are far removed from the environs of dharma. The first moment of true dharma transmission your originally-true nature is realized. These two lines need to be rea...
